* Juiceman <juiceman69 at gmail.com> [2006-07-30 17:19:04]:

> On 7/30/06, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) <nextgens at freenetproject.org> 
> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >        Would someone mind if I remove "pentium" optimized native big
> >        integer libraries ? what about pentiummmx too ?
> >        The asset beeing a space gain.
> >
> >        Atm, we have : none, pentium, pentiummmx, pentium2, pentium3,
> >        pentium4, k6, k62, k63, athlon, x86_64
> >
> >        IMHO, freenet 0.7 can't run "well enough" on a pentium. I'm
> >        running a node on a pentium2 and I'm already short of resources.
> >
> >        I've got one other idea: what about distributing
> >        YetAnotherJarfile with only optimized libraries ?
> >
> >        one for windows, one for linux (half space gain)
> >        or one per processor type (including both linux and win32 libs :
> >        big space gain)
> >
> >        any thought ?
> >
> 
> Honestly, I think this is more work than it is worth.  Freenet.jar is
> half the size of the freenet-ext.jar but is downloaded dozen's of
> times more often.  In the big picture this is a small percentage of
> the bandwidth.  Our target audiance is broadband users to which 1
> extra megabyte once in a great while is not an issue.  Also, I think
> this will lead to possible support and configuration issues if users
> get the wrong .jar's or mess around trying for better performance from
> different files,
> 
> I would much rather see the energy spent making the nodeupdater detect
> new versions amd update the freenet-ext.jar file in-Freenet.  My 2
> cents.

The problem is that many people aren't using update-over-freenet but the
mirrors.

NextGen$

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